“Stagecoach Mary” Fields was the first African American woman hired by the U.S. Postal Service. She won the job in 1895, at age 60, by being the fastest to hitch up a six-horse wagon team. Six feet tall and tough, Mary carried mail in Cascade, Montana, for almost a decade.
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